After 14 years of working at Valley, I was promoted to publisher of the two weekly newspapers with a combined 5,500 circulation in Eastern Washington. Located in small communities, The Prosser Record-Bulletin and The Grandview Herald papers required me to act as publisher, promoter, community/government liaison, distribution manager, section editor, ad salesman, human resource director of 15 employees, graphic artist and occasional handyman. As an employee in several different regional locations, I learned